Every week this year Sony’s PlayStation 3 has been beaten out over in Japan by the powerhouse that is Nintendo’s Wii. However, following a timely price-cut over in the Land of the Rising Sun, as well as the launch of the new white PlayStation 3, the tides have turned this week and Sony has proved to be triumphant.

Each week Japanese sales tracker ‘Media Create’ releases data on the Top 50 all format software sales, plus the breakdown of hardware numbers and for the week that ran between 5th and 11th of November, Sony saw its PlayStation 3 console shoot upwards to dizzy heights not seen since around launch time, lifting the platform above the sales of Nintendo’s Wii, which has been struggling lately, despite the release of seminal 3D platform title ‘Super Mario Galaxy’. The full breakdown of the hardware sales for the week, along with each platform’s previous weekly numbers, year totals and lifetime figures can be seen in the easy-to-view table below:

Media Create Hardware Chart

Format

This Week

Last Week

2007 Sales

Lifetime Sales

Nintendo DS

78,884

78,597

5,961,099

19,966,778

PlayStation Portable

58,964

59,714

2,244,938

6,777,067

PlayStation 3

55,924

17,434

844,568

1,302,126

Wii

34,546

37,617

2,860,430

3,780,073

PlayStation 2

9,043

10,209

658,773

20,813,632

Xbox 360

5,817

17,673

188,716

453,418

Game Boy Advance

923

319

49,903

15,347,982

GameCube

69

155

10,303

4,179,771

As you can see, clearly Sony has had quite a boost this week, with the PlayStation 3 nearly catching up to the revitalised PlayStation Portable this week. The question has to be, though, whether or not next week will see similarly large numbers, or whether the majority of sales have come from owners of the black model merely trading in their old system for the new one.

Onto the other important factor this week, actual software sold, Media Create reveals that Sony fans were shooting out and picking up the new Dynasty Warriors game in their droves as Koei’s Shin Sangoku Musou 6 lights up the Top 50 by entering at No.2 with sales of around 188,000 in its début week, making it one of the best selling PlayStation 3 games already. The only reason it was not top of the charts is due to Nintendo shipping a massive 500,000 copies of Mario Party DS to retail, allowing eager portable owners to snap up a stunning 235,000 copies of the Hudson Soft-developed title very quickly indeed. On the Sony front again, Konami’s new Castlevania game on the PlayStation Portable has basically sold through all of its initial stock, landing at No.9 with sales of around 19,000, whilst Ratchet & Clank fails to perform quite as well as expected, but still garners a No.10 placing.

You can check out the full Top 50 listing below, complete with small comments on the various games featured:

Media Create Top 50 Software Chart:
5th-11th November, 2007

Position

Title/System/Publisher

Sales (Plus Total Where Available & Commentary)

1.)

Mario Party DS (NDS, Nintendo)

235,000 | NEW

2.)

Shin Sangoku Musou 6 (PS3, Koei)

188,000 | NEW

3.)

Super Mario Galaxy (Wii, Nintendo)

74,000 | 325,000

4.)

Final Fantasy Tactics A2 (NDS, Square-Enix)

23,000 | 215,000

5.)

Shin Sangoku Musou 6 (360, Koei)

22,000 | NEW

6.)

Castlevania Chronicles (PSP, Konami)

19,000 | NEW

7.)

Wii Sports (Wii, Nintendo)

15,000 | 2,197,000

8.)

Nishimura Kyotarou Suspense Detective Series (NDS, Tecmo)

13,000 | 129,000

9.)

Sight Training (NDS, Nintendo)

13,000 | 690,000

10.)

Ratchet & Clank Future (PS3, Sony)

12,000 | NEW

11.)

Wii Play (Wii, Nintendo)

Back up one place

12.)

Kanji Brain Test 2.5M (NDS, IE Institute)

Dropping down just one

13.)

Mario Kart DS (NDS, Nintendo)

Up two places

14.)

Mario Party 8 (Wii, Nintendo)

Up two places

15.)

DS Literature Collection (NDS, Nintendo)

Falling ten places

16.)

Pokémon Mysterious Dungeon: Time Expedition Party (NDS, The Pokémon Company)